Word: noncombatant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lives because grades are a factor in draft deferments [March 25]. Draft boards must decide which men to take. Army classification people must decide which men to train for combat, which for jobs behind the lines. The Pentagon must decide which units to send to Viet Nam, which to noncombat areas. Leaders in Viet Nam must decide which units to send into combat. The platoon leader must decide which squad to send on patrol. I don't think it too much to ask the educator to do his job and grade his students according to their ability...
...criticism brought against President Ngo Dinh Diem was that he kept some of his best officers in noncombat jobs for political reasons. One promise made by Diem's successors was to appoint aggressive new commanders and give them a free hand. Last week the first such new commander found him self sacked and ordered to a desk exile that even Diem had not thought of-military attache in Formosa...
...nevertheless, went ahead with plans to bring home 1,000 troops from Viet Nam by New Year's-chiefly noncombat technicians, many of whose duties are being assumed by Vietnamese. At Saigon airport last week, the initial 294 U.S.-bound servicemen, many happily bearing lipstick smears from Saigon sweeties, clambered aboard four C-135 jets. Present to see the first men off were U.S. General Paul D. Harkins and South Viet Nam's Defense Minister Lieut. General Tran Van Don. Said Don of the departing Americans: "They have shared our hardships and sorrows, and nothing can repay them...
...away 600 men from the garrison there, then declared his intention to remove the 3,500 men of the U.S. 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment from Germany, the Bonn government reacted frantically. The Pentagon intends to reduce the U.S.'s Germany contingent by still more troops, most of them noncombat types. But to soothe jangled German nerves, the withdrawals were suspended until last week's Big Lift exercise demonstrated just how swiftly the U.S. troops could be returned in case of trouble...